Shirley Haidinger: Voter fraud found to be exaggerated

The author of Monday's letter "Reported fraud makes voter ID
necessary" should read the 2007 report by the nonpartisan Brennan
Center for Justice titled "The Truth About Voter Fraud" (see
http://bit.ly/l40KgU). Wisconsin was one of the states
investigated.

The center's conclusion: "The 2004 election was hotly contested
in Wisconsin, and various irregularities led to inflated claims of
widespread fraud... ." The allegations yielded only "seven
substantiated cases of individuals knowingly casting invalid votes
— all persons with felony convictions. This amounts to a rate of
0.0025 percent within Milwaukee and 0.0002 percent within the state
as a whole. None of these problems could have been resolved by
requiring photo ID at the polls."

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also published several articles
refuting the allegations. One includes a quote from Milwaukee
County District Attorney John Chisholm, who has prosecuted voter
fraud cases: "In the course of our work we have never found any
evidence to support allegations of organized, large scale vote
fraud or dissuasion."

— Shirley Haidinger, Madison

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